Tom Cruise stars as Reacher, an ex-Military Police Officer who is requested by an accused gunmen to help prove his innocence. What seems like an open-and-closed case becomes much more complicated.

Rosamund Pike (Wrath of the Titans), Robert Duvall, Werner Herzog, Richard Jenkins, Jai Courtney, and David Oyelowo (Lincoln) also star. The film is based on Child's book One Shot, which is the ninth book in the Jack Reacher series.